Dr. Antonio Scarpa is director of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He joined the CSR in July 2005 after 19 years at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Scarpa earned his medical degree and PhD in general pathology from the University of Padua School of Medicine and continued his training at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the University of Bristol in England, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was appointed to the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and continued his research there for 17 years. In 1986, Scarpa joined Case Western, where he was the David and Inez Myers Professor and chair of the Department of Physiology.